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Sri Parthasarathi thunai
Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha
Sri Vara Vara munayE Namaha
Sri vAnAchala mahA munayE Namaha
 
In our sampradayam, the erachorkal (divine words) of Azhvars are consideredas 
par with the Vedas as the Azhvars were divine personalities who were granted 
with the knowledge of divinity by emperuman himself (mayar varu madhinalam 
arulinAn). After the successful completion of geethOpadEsam, Sri Krishna asked 
arjuna if he had understood what all he has said till now and if his confusions 
have be cleared. Arjuna didn?t reply that he had got all the divine meanings in 
his mind instead he told the lord that he had cometo the conclusion that he is 
going to follow whatever Krishna says. This is the response from the disciple 
of the lord but do you know what the disciple of nammazhvar, Sri madhurakavigal 
says, ?nirkka pAdi ennenjul niruththinAn? (Azhvar has sung the essence of the 
vEdas in tamil and not stopping with that has strongly put it into my heart). 
This was the difference between Krishna and the krishnatrishnA tattvam, Swamy 
nammazhvar. Even while writing the sribhashyam
Swamy EmperumAnAr took the help of the arulicheyals of azhvars wherever 
necessary. Swamy desikan with great happiness declares that he got 
clarification for the confusing verses in vEdas with the help of the divine 
works ofazhvars. Such is the greatness of the divine works of Azhvars.
 
Now coming to our topic, one of the great prabhandams of thirumangai azhvar, 
thirunedunthAndakam it has all the important rahashya arthas inside it. Sri 
Parasara bhattar has given beautiful nirvAham to the same. Let us first compare 
the origin of nedunthAndakam and geetha. This prabhandam was sung by azhvar in 
front of namperumal whereas geetha was given by Parthasarathi in front of a 
baddha jeevatma arjuna. Arjuna was not that happy to have heard the divine 
arthas but namperumal was so excited to have heard azhvar?s prabhandam that he 
was ready to grant anything that azhvar wanted (that only gave rise to the 
famously celebrated adyayana utsavam in the mArgazhi month). The geethAsAstam 
was given by emperuman to clear the confusion of arjuna starting with the 
prathama adhyAyam (first canto-Arjuna vishAdha yOgam). At that point emperuman 
even forgot the fact that he is thereby giving out divine arthas that should 
not be given so easily which he feels forat the end (?etham tu thE
nAthabhaskAya?.). But azhvar sung the prabhandam not in a hurry but with great 
happiness to have fully enjoyed emperuman and wanting to reward bhagavan with 
his divine words.  
 
Azhvar has flooded this divine prabhandam with the rahasyatraya arthas, artha 
panchaka jnanam and many other vedantic meanings. Why did azhvar make such a 
prabhandam instead of just making an easy prabhandam to show his joy?The first 
reason is whenever the Azhvars start talking without their knowledge the 
vedantic arthas queue in their words. It is not their deliberateeffort but 
their talk always circle around bhagavat vishayam only. Why does azhvar?s words 
always have a special effect even more than the words of emperuman? That is 
because even in day-to-day life we ignore anyone who talk about his own 
greatness but when we find two or more people praising aspecific person then we 
feel that the person should be really great. Similarly Krishna talked about his 
greatness himself so people started to ignore him but when the Azhvars one 
after the other started talking about the greatness of emperuman people were 
attracted towards bhagavan and bhagavat vishayam. After the
geethOpadEsam emperuman should have understood this fact that is why he 
preferred to listen to his greatness through bheemAcharya (Sri Vishnu 
sahasranAmam) and to this day of hard kali blessed us with the great hierarchy 
of Azhvars and acharyas.
 
Even emperuman was surprised to see the amount of success the Azhvars and the 
acharyas (especially Swamy emperumanar) attained in their mission. Onlyto show 
his astonishment thirukurungudi nambi went to the extent of becoming 
EmperumAnAr?s disciple and till date holding the name vaishnava nambi.
 
In the next posting we will enjoy bhattar?s comments (nirvAham) about this 
divine sAstram and then proceed to see how the paasurams of this prabhandam are 
beautifully enacted in the araiyar sevai in Srirangam.
 
Azhvar EmperumAnAr Jeeyer thiruvadigalE sharanam
 
Adiyen ramanuja dAsee
Sumithra Varadarajan
 
 


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